leave it to americans to make eating competitive
By sarah at 26 August, 2008, 2:07 pm
The Food Network recently announced their new series “Eat the Clock”, a reality show similar to “The Amazing Race”, where teams of contestants race from restaurant to restaurant, gathering clues and consuming meals at local LA hotspots. While the Food Network says their show doesn’t emphasize frantic face-stuffing, like Spike TV and ESPN’s competitive eating […]
Read More >>LA’s Very Own Pay-it-Forward
By rachel at 7 August, 2008, 11:48 am
Los Angeles is a city where people are hesitant to even talk to one another - let alone water houseplants, offer free private cooking lessons, or teach Photoshop to complete strangers. And yet Echo Park Time Bank, an online community where members exchange and barter services to complete strangers, could very well be the […]
Read More >>don’t drink the water!
By charles at 11 June, 2008, 3:30 pm
If your an L.A. resident and haven’t read the local papers today, you may have missed out on an article covering an event with frightening implications for current or former tap-water drinkers. Recently, The Department of Water and Power covered the entire surface of Ivanhoe reservoir with floating black-plastic balls. Why? Because when the mixture […]
Read More >>fairey, obeyma or disobey?
By nora at 2 March, 2008, 11:32 pm
Longtime seen in the collective imagination as a controversial, rebel mind, Fairey just lost my admiration as the father of urban dis-obey-dience. He just found his master, Obama, by participating in his campaign.
In a mix of strategic, almost patriotic layers of blue, red and beige, the pastiche of Bansky (his heroe), invites as a propagandist […]
Rain, Rain Come Back!!
By lainie at 20 July, 2007, 11:26 am
Los Angeles, formerly known as the concrete jungle, has now been renamed the concrete desert. It rained for a couple hours last week, but that’s the last time I can remember that I’ve seen, heard or got to experience the rain. The rain in L.A. is like many other things in L.A, it’s just a […]
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